death<\/a> last December figured into Edwards\u2019 decision to retire. \u201cQuite frankly, after losing a good friend, it makes you think about what\u2019s important in life,\u201d he said. \u201cMy family is real important to me.\u201d<\/p>\nEdwards, who previously hosted mornings on WJMK from 1987 to 1989, rejoined the station in 2011 when it took on its classic hits format.\u00a0While a search for his successor is underway, evening host Jeffrey T. Mason will fill in during middays and weekend host John Calhoun will fill in during evenings, according to program director Todd Cavanah.<\/p>\n
\u201cTommy is an unbelievable talent, and this station deserves the best in the business,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to find somebody that knows the music and can relate to the at-work audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Added Cavanah: \u201cAs sad as I am that Tommy is retiring from radio, I am so happy that we had the chance to work together and that he finished his unbelievable career on the air at K-Hits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So long, L\u2019il Tommy. Tommy Edwards, the iconic Chicago broadcaster who excelled as both an on-air personality and behind-scenes programmer, is signing off after an amazing 54 years in radio. Edwards, 70, announced Friday he\u2019s retiring as midday host at WJMK FM 104.3, the CBS Radio classic hits station. Following a weeklong on-air celebration of... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}